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to let loose his wrath upon the city to ‘rebuke us in his anger, and chasten us in his hot displeasure’. ” Therefore, Mayhew said, God “caused his wind to blow; and suddenly raised it to such a height, that all endeavours to put a stop to the raging flames, were ineffectual”. Mayhew finished his sermon by warning the people of Boston that unless they repented and reformed enough, they should expect an even greater punishment.
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Discourses Delivered October 25th. 1759: Being the Day Appointed by Authority to be Observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving, for the Success of His Majesty's Arms, More Particularly in the Reduction of Quebec, the Capital of Canada. With an Appendix, Containing a Brief Account of Two Former
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A Defence of the
Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Against an Anonymous Pamphlet Falsly Intitled, A Candid Examination of Dr. Mayhew's
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remembered long afterward that Mayhew’s sermon, “was read by everybody.” Some would say later that this sermon was the first volley of the
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